Mexico’s Universal Health Insurance Programme Eases Crippling Household Expenses

An article written by Professor Gary King, and his collaborators from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA, published Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet, discuss the findings of an evaluation made at random of Seguro Popular, Mexico’s newly-introduced pilot universal health insurance system. Results show that household-crippling* expenditure has declined for poor families, as well as the general population.

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Filed under: Health Insurance / Medical Insurance on April 10th, 2009